Briana Chacon, competing in solely her third occasion on the Epson Tour after incomes her card on the Qualifying Faculty, emerged victorious on the Atlantic Seashore Traditional, ending with 206 (67 70 69, -7) strokes, forward of Jessica Porvasnik and Kim Kaufman, who tied for second with 207 (-6).
On the Atlantic Seashore Nation Membership course in Florida, the place the event befell, Benedetta Moresco completed in twenty sixth place with 214 (74 70 70, +1), whereas her sister Angelica missed the minimize (tied for 77th with 147 – 70 77, +5).
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Occupying fourth place with 208 (-5) had been Karen Chung, Lauren Stephenson—who led after the primary two rounds—and Colombian MariaJo Uribe. Tied for seventh with 209 (-4) had been Amanda Doherty, Kendra Dalton, Cydney Clanton, and Japanese participant Yurika Tanida.
22-year-old Briana Chacon from Whittier, California, who had missed the minimize in her first two occasions of the season, earned a prize of $45,000 from a complete purse of $300,000. The Epson Tour, previously referred to as the LPGA Futures Tour and beforehand named the Duramed Futures Tour from 2006 to 2010, and the Symetra Tour from 2012 to 2021 because of sponsorship causes, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour.
It supplies a platform for skilled ladies golfers and certified amateurs to hone their expertise. Historical past: The tour was established in Florida in 1981 underneath the identify “Tampa Bay Mini Tour” earlier than formally changing into the Futures Golf Tour in 1983.
In 1999, it attained nationwide tour standing because the “official developmental tour” of the LPGA Tour. Notably, Grace Park, Marilyn Lovander, and Audra Burks had been the primary gamers to earn computerized LPGA Tour exempt standing by ending within the high three on the Futures Golf Tour Cash Record.
In a transfer to facilitate youthful expertise, the minimal age for participation was lowered to 17 earlier than the beginning of the 2006 season. The LPGA formally acquired the Futures Tour on July 18, 2007, consolidating ladies’s skilled golf underneath one governing physique, having beforehand operated as a licensee of the LPGA.
Duramed, a pharmaceutical firm, served because the tour’s title sponsor from 2006 till the conclusion of the 2010 season. The tour was briefly known as the “LPGA Futures Tour” in 2011. Subsequently, in 2012, Symetra, an insurance coverage supplier based mostly in the USA, grew to become the title sponsor, prompting a reputation change to the “Symetra Tour.” In January 2022, Epson America Inc.
signed a five-year title sponsorship settlement with the LPGA, resulting in the tour being renamed the “Epson Tour.”